Colonial Cosmopolitanism and Chinese Modernity: German Economic and Cultural Adventurers in China 1870-1937

该项目将有助于增加澳大利亚对殖民主义和中国社会变革的了解，并将提高澳大利亚作为中国研究主要中心的国际声誉。它将增加对中国与外部世界互动的重要历史的理解，这些经验教训将渗透到澳大利亚的历史，当前和未来与中国的互动中。在这个过程中，该项目通过探索中国与主要经济大国（如德国）的富有成效的互动历史，挑战了一个孤立的、仇外的“中国是中央王国”的神话。

The project will assist in increasing Australia's knowledge base about both colonialism in general and social change in China; and will add to Australia's international reputation as a major centre of research on China. It will increasing understandings of the important histories of China's interactions with the outside world, lessons that will spill over into Australia's history, current and future interactions with China. In the process the project challenges the myth of an isolated, xenophobic 'China as Middle Kingdom' by exploring histories of China's productive interactions with major economic powers, such as Germany.